Global Sustainability and Life Cycle Consultant (GSLC Consultant) LLC was duly established in 2017 as limited liability company (LLC) under the laws of the State of Georgia, USA by the filing of articles of organization in the Office of the Secretary of State of GA. Dr. Santosh R. Ghimire [Ph.D., Cert. in Sustainability] serves as the founding President/Chief Executive Officer of the GSLC Consultant.

PROJECT NEWS2017 U.S. EPA Contract Award Completed: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Contract Award for Life Cycle Impact Assessment Project: Sustainability analysis of stormwater management practices in the Southeast U.S.

Global sustainability

​Sustainability of a system, service, product, or society involves a long-term balance of economic, social, and environmental goals (Ghimire and Johnston 2017). The 2009 Executive Order [EO 13514] and the National Research Council defined sustainability that was drawn from National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 as: “to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations” (Federal Register 2009; NRC 2011). However, it is important to realize that sustainability is a dynamic process; therefore, sustainability indicators and goals vary by experts’ perspectives, culture, necessity, economic status, geographic region, health and sanitation conditions, and research objectives. It will be very difficult to meet all the requirements of sustainability indicators simultaneously. While an understanding of an individual indicator provides a partial sustainability criteria and associated trade-off, an integrated (overall) sustainability measure quantifies the overall status.Global sustainability encompasses wide range of indicators, and addresses the issue of subjectivity by integrating various weighting schemes and quantifying a unique sustainability score. ​Literature Cited:Federal Register (2009). Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance; The White House, USA.

Ghimire, S.R. and Johnston, J.M. (2017). A modified eco‐efficiency framework and methodology for advancing the state of practice of sustainability analysis as applied to green infrastructure. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 9999 (9999), 1-11. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ieam.1928/full​NRC (2011). Sustainability and the US EPA, National Research Council, National Academies Press.​​

Recent Presentations

Workshop presentation at Water Research Foundation Conference in Atlanta Georgia USA, May 6, 2018 (photo courtesy of Jeff Mosher Water Research Foundation attendee)